Dan S. wrote:
> I have a bunch of children's games and other random software
> that came in cereal boxes :). Obviously 80% of these programs
> aren't even in the appdb, and half of them don't work for one
> reason or another. For the symptoms that each show when being
> run under wine; what can I search for to see if it's a known
> bug (tm) or has a workaround or if I can just expect them
> to hit the garbage can with no hope of ever being supported.
Look for the console message just before the problem,
and do a google search for the whole line
(except numbers with lots of digits).
> I don't really know what to do to report these things as
> no one else out there seems to have posted any information
> regarding them to either this list, or the appdb, or anywhere
> google can reach for that matter.
Report them by filing individual bugs at http://bugs.winehq.org
Be sure to attach the wine console output as a text file,
don't include it inline in the bug report.
Thanks & good luck!
- Dan
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